Amazon Textract vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Amazon Textract supports tables, forms; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports multilingual.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Coming soon |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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